Search Twitter for "earthquake" today and you will see hundreds of responses during the first minute after the quake.
Howard Rheingold [email protected] http://twitter.com/hrheingold http://www.rheingold.com http://www.smartmobs.com http://vlog.rheingold.com what it is ---> is --->up to us On Mar 30, 2009, at 4:52 PM, Mark Elliott wrote: > Thanks Howard and Nancy! - from the article upon first scan: > > ...SMS and mobile IM messages seem to hold a much stricter timetable > [than instant messaging]. Almost all participants indicated a > punctual 5-15 minutes response time at replying to messages they > receive. They expect similar response time for messages that they > send out, so much so that most of them claimed that they would > follow-up with a second message or phone call, if no response was > given within 2 hours. > > Also of note: > > All participants responded that they almost always immediately > notice the notification and immediately > respond by reading the SMS/mobile IM message. In contrast, > participants indicated they are more likely to negotiate their > response time when dealing with desktop/laptop IM messages, leading > to longer delays before reading the message. > > As many of you probably are aware of, here in Australia, in my state > Victoria, we had some pretty horrendous bushfires (forest fires) - > many lives lost, completely unprecedented fire dynamics etc. My > consultancy is providing advice and strategy to emergency services > bodies regarding options for enabling smart mobs via social media, > SMS and other distributed communications which got me wondering > about response time. > > It's interesting to think about the network effects of cascading > responses, each taking 5-15 minutes - which actually adds up to > sizable delays. However this doesn't take into consideration sending > messages to groups, or even how many individual messages might be > sent out after receiving one high priority / important message - > which could create exponentially growing cascades of recipents. > > Of course a major problem we had with the last fires was that mobile/ > cell phone coverage went down in effected areas as cell towers were > consumed in the fires... > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 10:34 AM, Nancy McClure <[email protected]> > wrote: > this study has a short section on the immediacy of recognition, and > begins to allude to the impact upon social response. No hard > metrics, but could lead you to more... > http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jasonh/publications/CHI2006-kptang-workshop-chi2006.pdf > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Mark Elliott <[email protected]> > wrote: > Has anyone come across any research on average SMS text message > response time - that is, the average time it takes for someone to > respond to an SMS text message (not the technical potential speed, > but the social speed)? > > Just curious as it seems like it would be an interesting indicator > regarding speed of potential cooperation via SMS smartmob networks... > > Thoughts? > Mark > > > -- > ----- > Mark Elliott, PhD > Director, CollabForge pty ltd > collaboration ~ mass collaboration ~ social software > http://Collabforge.com ~ http://Mark-Elliott.net ~ http://MetaCollab.net > Phone: 0421 978 501 (international callers: +614 21 978 501) > > > > > > -- > http://apertedesign.typepad.com > > > > > > > -- > ----- > Mark Elliott, PhD > Director, CollabForge pty ltd > collaboration ~ mass collaboration ~ social software > http://Collabforge.com ~ http://Mark-Elliott.net ~ http://MetaCollab.net > Phone: 0421 978 501 (international callers: +614 21 978 501) > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CooperationCommons" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/CooperationCommons?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
